A Few Updates Before a Week-long Vacation

Before I pack my bag and go on a week-long vacation, I shall post a few updates here:

* My new business-oriented blog titled “The World is Our Playground” is up. Big thanks to SEO Pinoy for giving me a start-up blog, as well as to Meggido Peace for the start-up support. It’s just about a week old, so I am hoping that I get to receive more review offers these coming days. And since I needed content for the blog, I had to exploit myself for material. As if exploiting myself here is not enough.

* One rainy afternoon, I was duped by one clever taxi driver. I never felt so stupid in my entire commuter life, so I hope he skids down the highway. Evil, I know, and so was he. Because of that experience, I have to learn how to commute like a pro. This includes knowing the short cuts, PUV stops, and standard fares. Plus having that quick instinct to say “Para” when riding a PUV that careens at 60 km per hour.

* The date has been set. Only six weeks to go before I bid my last goodbye. That equals 12 days in the office, given our home-based working arrangement. By October, my teammates and I are out of the company. So are other employees. Other than completing my weekly tasks and maintaining contacts with my officemates, I do not care anymore.

* The “wonders of freely-publicized knowledge” led me to ditch my scheduled job interviews for the week.Thanks to a number of web-content writers, whose blog entries gave away the profiles of their respective companies. When applying for a job, it helps to do a background check first.

* My Plans A and B are pretty sealed already. I do not want to jinx the plans, so I am keeping them under wraps.

After Knowing The Real Deal

Recent work developments did not exactly catch me off-guard. Like Ced, I have seen it coming. It also helped that I have been conditioning myself mentally, and that I have been making personal plans. The brunt of these recent developments is nothing but an agreeable finish to what’s been brewing for the past few months.

Now the question is what to do next for the last few months of this year and beyond. No way am I signing myself up to a self-induced boredom, as well as finance less stupor, so I am bound to work on my constantly evolving plans, which include going back to school this year, while supporting myself through freelance writing.

Just thinking about school and work make me equate it to a suicidal ideation, however. It’s like putting a rope around my neck and waiting for my breath to run out. Okay, enough negativity. What I need now is a single-minded fanaticism to keep my life going, keep my sanity intact, as well as to make money come rolling in.

What I am resolute about is that I am not committing myself to a boring regular day job. Office setting, fixed schedule, and daily routine suck so I will go for anything freelance or home-based. Now if only there’s a job out there that would require me to travel, write, or maybe take pictures, I would gladly apply for the position.

Edit: Being currently uncertain about where my life’s going to makes me rethink about what I said in the last paragraph.

On Work and Office Matters

“The biggest misconception about work is that you have to spend most of your life doing it.”- Tom Ferriss, author of The 4-hour Workweek

Talks about working at home have been going on in the office for sometime now. One of my officemates is now home-based while there will be some employees who will follow suit soon.

Almost every one in the office would rather work at home given the hassle of commuting every working day, the upset brought about by increasing daily costs, among other reasons why going home-based is better than working in the office.

With the nature of our work, which is basically internet-based, all of us can still be highly-productive as long as there’s a computer with an internet connection.

Certainly, the concept of a mobile work lifestyle is very appealing. Having a work with an automated income minus the trappings of an office setting, daily routine, and fixed schedule will allow anyone to travel, follow personal pursuits, and generally, live life according to one’s fancy.

I am so fervently wishing, hoping, and planning to free myself from the daily grind.

february fair

The week started with a whine on a Monday morning and ended with a conscious sealing of the eyes at midnight. Last Saturday, I had a small bump on my forehead when the Cubao-bound bus I was riding suddenly halted, driving my sleepyhead forward into the rail at the back of the passenger’s seat in front of me.

Friday was the last day of the February Fair at UP Los Baños. The field was congested with org booths, food stalls, and people furtively trying not to get their feet stepped on. The program at the stage area ended quite early. We were expecting more bands to play but after hearing two LB-based bands, they were already singing UP Naming Mahal.

How is that for the last day of the fair?

There weren’t new and exciting things to see. The usual: wall climbing, paintball, food stalls. The only good thing about the fair is that it serves as a reunion of sorts for bloc mates, org mates, friends, and other insert-kind-of-college-relationship here. I stayed until five in the morning at the field. Sober.

One of my orgs managed to put up our booth at a strategic place. This was so unlike last year where we had our booth at the farthest region of the field. This year even if we could not actually hear the noise from the stage the booth was easily accessible and that there was sufficient light to see other people’s faces.

Silveria, the camera, behaved quite well during the night. I don’t know if I am setting her right but I just cannot take clear pictures correctly during evenings. I am still trying to figure out how to make the most out of her potential especially when taking pictures at night time.

Random group pictures during the UPLB Febfair 2007 can be seen here.

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